#ate

Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force. ↗

— Lord North

#business #five #force #four #frigates

Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States. ↗

— Oliver North

#conjure #image #know #listeners #means

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one. ↗

— Oliver North

#america #been #ever #haven #i

The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy. ↗

— Oliver North

#american #american foreign policy #coordinate #council #foreign

When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak. ↗

— Oliver North

#covert #go #going #information #leak

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story. ↗

— Oliver North

#compromised #create #draw #excitement #exciting

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#early #failures #few #greatest #life

I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#acts #aesthetic #also #always #arena

People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest. ↗

— Edward Norton

#corporate #degree #human #interest #people

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up. ↗

— Edward Norton

#character #ends #i #interesting #relate